I wrote yesterday about the bondage I kept inside me and using it to measure the ugliness of sin. If I didn’t think my sin was as ugly as dad’s or my brother I would confess it and still feel ok that I wasn’t like either of them. As I awakened through years of counseling to let them own their own sins and my responsibility that I needed to address my own as just mine, reality took a big turn. I could talk about sins done to me and sins I committed. I could do this without bondage and without comparison.

Yesterday afternoon a gentleman who was only having his second session talked about his troubled childhood. A couple things he talked about had only been told to his wife. He couldn’t look up as he told them to me, he was so ashamed. Of course, he couldn’t see my face but I was smiling. I was thinking, my word, this poor man has held this shame all of these years. If he only knew how many others of us have gone through very similar pasts.

Later in his session I asked if we could go back to the “shame” he mentioned earlier? He said that would be ok. As we did I shared with him how long this “very similar shame” had held me in bondage in my past. His eyes widened as he realized he was not alone in this. Our past can keep us in such bondage and shame which Satan loves. But, just simply opening up to someone we trust lets the Light of Glory shine on these ugly lies. From this Light we begin to see hope and freedom on the horizon. God is SO GOOD!